Research Articles Since 2012
Zhang DY & Bai L (2016) “Inter-allelic interaction and gene regulation in budding yeast.” PNAS, Accepted.
Yan C, Wu S, Pocetti C, & Bai L (2016) “Regulation of Cell-to-Cell Variability in Divergent Gene Expression.” Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11099.
Yan C, Zhang DY, Garay JA, Mwang MM, & Bai L (2015) “Decoupling of divergent gene regulation by sequence-specific DNA binding factors.” Nucleic Acid Research, 43: 7292-305.
Parnell EJ, Yu Y, Lucena R, Yoon Y, Bai L, Kellogg DR, & Stillman DJ (2014) “The Rts1 Regulatory Subunit of PP2A Phosphatase Controls Expression of the HO Endonuclease via Localization of the Ace2 Transcription Factor.” JBC, 289:35431-35437.
Zhang Q, Yoon Y, Yu Y, Parnell EJ, Garay JA, Mwangi MM, Cross FR, Stillman DJ, & Bai L (2013) “Stochastic expression and epigenetic memory at the yeast HO promoter.” PNAS, 110: 14012-14017.
Ma J, Bai L, & Wang MD. (2013) “Transcription under Torsion.” Science, 28:1580-1583.
Li J, Liu Y, Rhee HS, Ghosh BS, Bai L, Pugh BF, & Gilmour DS. (2013) “Kinetic Competition between Elongation Rate and Binding of NELF Controls Promoter Proximal Pausing.” Molecular Cell, 50:711-722.
Research Articles Before 2012
Bai L, Ondracka A & Cross FR. (2011) “Multiple sequence-specific factors participate in the formation of nucleosome-depleted-region on the CLN2 promoter.” Molecular Cell, 42:465-76.
Bai L & Wang MD. (2010) “Comparison of Pause Predictions of Two Sequence-Dependent Transcription Models.” Journal of Statistical Mechanics, P12007.
Bai L, Charvin G, Siggia ED & Cross FR. (2010) “Nucleosome depleted regions in cell-cycle-regulated promoters ensure reliable gene expression in every cell cycle.” Developmental Cell, 18:544-55.
Jin J, Bai L, Johnson DS, Fulbright RM, Kireeva ML, Kashlev M, Wang MD (2010) “Overcoming the Nucleosomal Barrier during Transcription Elongation.” Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, 17:745-52.
Hall MA, Shundrovsky A, Bai L, Fulbright RM, Lis JT & Wang MD (2009). “High resolution dynamic mapping of histone-DNA interactions in a nucleosome.” Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, 16:124-129.
Johnson DS, Bai L, Smith B, Patel S & Wang MD (2007). “Single Molecule Studies Reveal Dynamics of DNA Unwinding by the Ring-Shaped T7 Helicase.” Cell, 129:1299-309.
Bai L, Fulbright RM & Wang MD (2007). “Mechanochemical kinetics of transcription elongation.” Phys Rev Lett, 98:068103.
Jiang J*, Bai L*, Surtees J, Gemici Z, Wang MD & Alani E (2005). “Detection of high affinity mismatch binding and sliding clamp modes for the MSH2-MSH6 mismatch recognition complex by single-molecule unzipping force analysis.” Molecular Cell, 20:771-81. *Contribute equally
Bai L, Shundrovsky A. & Wang MD (2004). “Sequence-dependent kinetic model for transcription elongation by RNA polymerase.” J. Mol. Biol., 344:335-349.
Reviews, Book Chapters, News and views
Wang X, Bai L, Bryant GO & Ptashne M (2011) “Nucleosomes and the accessibility problem.” Trends Genet, 27: 487-92.
Buchler NE & Bai L (2011). “Bind at your own RSC: Nucleosome phasing and occupancy in a eukaryotic promoter.” Current Biology, 21:223-5.
Bai L & Charvin G (2010). “Nucleosome-depleted regions in promoters: consequences on robustness of transcriptional activation.” Med Sci (Paris), 26:1035-1037.
Bai L & Morozov AV. (2010). “Gene regulation by nucleosome positioning.” Trends Genet, 26:476-83.
Bai L, Santangelo T & Wang MD (2006). “Single molecule analysis of RNA polymerase transcription.” Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biomol. Struct, 35:343-360.